Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-13

aBut thought you were oifdor Seenefsvihe
In such a hurry"
Il found myself just five minutes too late
for the train, after having run all the way to
the depot
aOh, that was too bad
Chiekerly smiled little as he began to carve
the chicken
eYes, L was little annoyed at first, it did |
seem rather provoking to be kept at home by |
only a shirt button"
aWhat are you going 10 dor
sWhy, shall make second start te-mor.
row.
| an see to it that your breakfast is ready |
this time, to the second, and all your ward |
robe in tim. said Fanny, rather relieved at |
the prospect Of q chance of retrieving her
| character.
| aYou need not. have engaged room at
! a hotel near the depot can't run any more
risks
He did not speak unkindly, ard yet Fanny
felt that he was deeply displcased with her.
aBut, Frank--'
ave will not discuss the matter any further,
my dear, if yon please. ! have resolved to
say nothing more to You atout reforms
see il is useless. and only tends to foster an
|
help Won TO some more macaroniF
Fairly silenced, Fanny ate her dinner with
what appetite was left her.
Three DAYS afterward Mr. Chickerly once
more made his entrance, iust at dusk, Salise
in hand, while Fanny sasl Dying the rudy
light of the coal fire and ta8eonsciousness OF
having performed her duty in the mending
| and general renovation OF her husbands
\ Il. !, ~, had O,Hrr
been dreading and postponing
eWen, how is Aunt Elizabethi' questioned
Mrs. Chickeriy, when her husband, duly wei
coined and crested, had seated himself in the
opposite easy chair
dead was the brief reply,
; Dead! Oh, Frank! OF her old enemy,
|, apoplexyI7
. AYES
"Was her viii niade;n
sIt was Apparently she had expected me
on the day she herself appointed; and on my
: non-arrival on the only train that stops she
. sent for the village lawyer, made her VIII, and
left all her property to the orphan asylam in
: Scenersville, with few bitter words to the
!. effect that the neglect Of her only living
nephew had induced her, on the spur of the
moment TO alter her original intention OF
| leaving III 10 DIM Foue uitt tnt HcAt ifiul II
ing"
"Oh, Frank, how much was itF'
Ten thousand dollars
There was moment or two of silence, ther
Mr. Chickerly added, composedly:
@You see, Fanny, how much that missing
: button has cost mei7
1t Mrs ChickerlF sat like one condemned BY
!. the utterance of har owa conscience. No
alone the one missing button, hut the score
IL nav, hundrels-of trifing omissions, for
getfulness and post oIieIacnts which mad
X her life one cpdIesS cndeavor to catch up
with the transporting present, seemed 10 pre-
70 sent themselves before her minds eye VIVA
=. would this end in. Was not the present les
son sufficiently mo-lentcgs TO teach her Z
III tram herself in a different SCHOOL,
She rose and came In her husband side
laying cslc tremulcus hand on his shoulder.
There s.,an he no Eao7e missing buttons
IS nv love" she SAL earnestly.
He connprehcndJ1 tlithst she left nnsposer
AZ ard silently pressed the lt'!e hand in his OWL
De and not a word ',-F. VS. said uron the sui
iect
e, But It va POI fc.-5t-ca EirS Chickerl
aa set herself ~ o;.ft, y 10 ,@orA 10 nProot Il
ne rank wee,ls -.s. N her garden Of lif'
And sha srec,y.s !. - w al may do whe
we resnlrc to 10 a IS tai2s